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Issue: Vol. 3616 No. 4: 21 Feb. 2013
Type: Articles
Published: 2013-02-21
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3616.4.5
Page range: 367–377
Abstract views: 39
PDF downloaded: 1

Three new quill mite species of the genus Neoaulonastus Skoracki (Acari: Syringophilidae) parasitizing passerines in Tanzania

Department of Animal Morphology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Faculty of Biology, Umultowska 89, 61–614 Poznan, Poland
Department of Ecology, Faculty of Humanities and Natural Sciences & Centre of Excellence for Animal and Human Ecology, University in Presov, 17 November 1, 081 16 Presov, Slovakia Institute of Zoology, Poznań University of Life Sciences, Wojska Polskiego 71 C, 60-625 Poznan, Poland
Ornithological Section, Bavarian State Collection of Zoology, 81247 Munich, German
Acari Syringophilidae quill mites ectoparasites birds Africa Tanzania

Abstract

Three new species of the genus Neoaulonastus Skoracki, 2004 found inside the quills of the body feathers are described: N. tanzanicus sp. nov. from Euplectes axillaris (Smith) (Passeriformes: Ploceidae), N. quelea sp. nov. from Quelea quelea Linnaeus (Ploceidae) and N. granatina sp. nov. from Granatina ianthinogaster Reichenow (Estrildidae). All avian hosts were captured in Tanzania. Key to Neoaulonastus species is proposed.

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